Senior Product Designer (Illustration & Motion, EdTech)

Miaplaza; Portugal; Teletrabalho; EUR 60 000 - 90 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

100% remote (EMEA)

Overlap CET hours (10:00–15:00)

Full-time

Resumo da oferta

Miaplaza is seeking a senior Product/UI/UX Designer to own the student learning experience end-to-end within a small, senior design team. You will shape illustration and motion standards and guide AI-assisted production to scale quality visuals.

You’ll collaborate with PMs and engineers in a live product context, bringing 2+ years of product design experience and strong Figma skills. This is a fully remote role for candidates within Europe and CET overlap is required.

Qualificações

• Portfolio of shipped digital product work.
• At least 2 years working as a product designer or a UI/UX designer inside a product team, collaborating with PMs and engineers.
• Strong illustration or motion skills, with at least 1 year focused on either as a primary craft.
• Proficiency in Figma.
• Some experience directing or guiding visual work produced by others — freelancers, junior designers, or AI tools.

Responsabilidades

• Own product design for the student learning experience end-to-end: from problem framing through delivery, in a Product Trio with a PM and EM.
• Manage product work involving pedagogical, technical, and business trade-offs.
• Set the illustration and motion bar for all of Miaplaza: the standards, motion principles, and character direction that the other designers and the Design System build from.
• Art-direct AI-assisted production by building the prompts, references, and review process that let a small team produce quality illustration and motion at scale.

Conhecimentos

Product design

UI/UX

Illustration

Motion design

Collaboration with PMs/engineers

Ferramentas

Figma

AI tools

Descrição da oferta de emprego

About the Role

• At Miaplaza, we build homeschool platforms that kids aged 4–18 actually want to use — Miacademy, MiaPrep, and our Online High School are serving over 150,000 students today.
• We are looking for a step change in how our products feel through more expressive illustration, more purposeful motion, and more moments of craft.
• The design team is small and senior, consisting of five designers with distinct strengths in brand, Design Systems, research, and now illustration and motion.
• You will report to the Head of UX, with regular 1:1s covering craft, product, and career growth.
• Career direction includes deeper craft leadership, cross-product influence, or both.
• This role probably isn’t right for you if: your work hasn't yet lived inside a live product with real constraints; you prefer well-scoped tasks over shaping ambiguous problems; or you see AI tools as either a threat to craft or a shortcut around it.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Own product design for the student learning experience end-to-end: from problem framing through delivery, in a Product Trio with a PM and EM.
• Manage product work involving pedagogical, technical, and business trade-offs.
• Set the illustration and motion bar for all of Miaplaza: the standards, motion principles, and character direction that the other designers and the Design System build from.
• Art-direct AI-assisted production by building the prompts, references, and review process that let a small team produce quality illustration and motion at scale.

What You’ll Bring

• A portfolio of shipped digital product work — not only concepts or standalone pieces.
• At least 2 years working as a product designer or a UI/UX designer inside a product team, collaborating with PMs and engineers.
• Strong illustration or motion skills, with at least 1 year focused on either as a primary craft.
• Proficiency in Figma.
• Some experience directing or guiding visual work produced by others — freelancers, junior designers, or AI tools.

Nice to Have

• Deep motion skills in product contexts: interactions, transitions, onboarding, character animation.
• Experience using AI image or motion tools as production accelerators.
• Confidence running your own usability research, not just receiving findings.
• Multi-brand or education-focused design experience.
• Accessibility practice, especially for neurodivergent audiences.

Compensation & Benefits

• €60,000 - €90,000 per year, adjusted by experience and location.
• 100% remote for non U.S. candidates (EMEA, CET±2).
• You are required to live within 2 hours of each side of the CET time zone.
• Full-time, 40 hours per week.
• Effective collaboration requires overlap between 10:00 and 15:00 CET on weekdays.
• Miaplaza’s compensation philosophy ensures equity and competitiveness while considering regional differences in labor costs. Placement within a range is determined based on factors such as demonstrated skills, internal equity, and local labor market rates for the candidate’s geographic area.

Interview Process

• Application and eligibility check — work authorization, timezone, availability.
• Async assessment — 12 scenario-based, multiple-choice questions (~30 min); if qualifying, 3 open questions (max. 45 min).
• Portfolio review — the design team will review your best work and thinking.
• Behavioral interview — a conversation with our People team about how you work.
• Take-home design task — ~60 minutes, scoped for this role, AI tools encouraged.
• Hiring team interview — with a design team member and the Head of UX.
• Skip-level conversation — with executive leadership.
• Reference checks.

About Miaplaza

• Miaplaza is a growing, self-funded EdTech company.
• We build homeschool platforms including Miacademy, MiaPrep, and our Online High School, serving over 150,000 students.